Cultural journalist Robin Mowat speaks on the generational longevity of reasonable doubt and the respect that it continues to receive as a body of work.

I feel like the album still has the same level of respect and regard.

I know that there weren't like too, too many hip hop publications at the time, but I think people still respect the album.

And I think hip hop heads really still rock with it.

My hope is that people continue listening to it.

And even though Jay-Z has evolved as an artist, this is definitely something that is going to continue to live on in the hip hop canon.

You forget sometimes when you see Jay now in his Basquiat era and being the person who, you know, we call like the superhero when there's social

injustice and people need him and he comes in.

Culture journalist Robin Moet remembers her father introducing her to hip-hop by playing Reasonable Doubt around the house.

I was so young when the album dropped.

I was literally like four or five years old.

And so I remember hearing it in the house.

I remember hearing it.

My dad, he's had so many cars, but I remember hearing it in his cars.

And I bring him up mainly because my dad was really my introduction to hip hop.